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The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Daily prayer: John the Baptist

Daily prayer: John the Baptist

Almighty God, by whose providence your servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his teaching...

What would Nixon think of Trump?

What would Nixon think of Trump?

What would Richard Nixon think of President Trump? Knowing I used to work for 37, people sometimes ask me. It’s a vexing question. The 30 years I spent in Nixonland, from part-time undergraduate...

Daily prayer: For peace

Daily prayer: For peace

Holy God, we each bear your image, and to you, every life is precious and every death a grief. You forget none whom you have made, and you number us one by one. Teach us to do the same. Lend an...

Visiting St. Nicholas of Myra Church, Encino

Visiting St. Nicholas of Myra Church, Encino

After church today, what did you talk about at coffee hour? I was at St. Nicholas of Myra in Encino. After 37 confirmations, two first communions, and a delicious lunch, a woman told me that she has...

Thoughts on war in Iran

Thoughts on war in Iran

The never Trumper finds it hard praying Trump gets the political win on Iran. But one must. Trump failing would be a reciprocal attack on United States volunteers serving in the region or civilians...

Daily prayer: Second Sunday after Pentecost

Daily prayer: Second Sunday after Pentecost

O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving­-kindness; through Jesus...

The Pasadena Museum of Art

The Pasadena Museum of Art

Visitors to the Pasadena Museum of History can see, among 100 other works in a centennial exhibition, these views of a Pasadena hillside by Orrin A. White (1883-1969); Santa Clarita’s Vasquez Rocks,...

For leaders of nations

For leaders of nations

Almighty God, kindle, we pray, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with your wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth, that in tranquillity your dominion may increase...

Ordination of Deacon Payton Høegh

Ordination of Deacon Payton Høegh

My scrapbook from the ordination and consecration Friday evening of the Rev. Payton Walker Høegh in the Sacred Order of Deacons. By the mysterious working of the calendar, Payton was our only...

Daily prayer: For servant ministers

Daily prayer: For servant ministers

Almighty God, you declare your glory and show forth your handiwork in the heavens and in the earth: Deliver us from the service of self alone, that we may do the work you give us to do in truth and...

Daily prayer: For justice, truth and peace

Daily prayer: For justice, truth and peace

Almighty God, guide the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of the Lord...

Juneteenth celebration concert

Juneteenth celebration concert

Below are my welcoming remarks at “A Juneteenth Sacred Resistance Concert,” sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles' Program Group on Black Ministry, the H. Belfield Hannibal Union of...